BY Gbenga Ariyibi Ado Ekiti
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has castigated the All
Progressives Congress ( APC ) and its presidential candidate, Major
General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) for seeking the votes of Yorubas
and people of Edo and Delta States rather than asking for their
forgiveness.


According to the statement by the Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media in Ado Ekiti yesterday, Lere
Olayinka said it was disheartening while recounting the kind of
inhuman treatment melted to some of the Yoruba leaders during the
regime of Buhari in 1985
Some of the Yoruba leaders,according to the statement who tasted
the bitter pill from Buhari included late Chief Obafemi Awolowo
Awolowo, Chief Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Bisi Onabanjo, Chief Bola Ige,
Alhaji Lateef Jakande and the immediate past APC National
Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande,” all of whom championed
development and good governance in the Southwest States.”
”Buhari’s coup of 1983 destroyed the Southwest and the old Bendel
State (now Edo and Delta) as it put an end to the developmental
programmes of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s Unity Party of
Nigeria (UPN) government in the Southwest States of Lagos, Oyo,
Ogun and Ondo, as well as Bendel State.”
Fayose described Buhari’s cancellation of the Lagos metroline
project in 1985 as the grearest disservice to the Yoruba people in
particular, and Nigerians in general.
”If Buhari had not cancelled the metroline project out of vendetta,
transportation problems in Lagos would have been solved
permanently.
”The metroline project would have made life easier and changed the
face of transport in Lagos. But Buhari cancelled it an even went
ahead to pay compensation to the French company that handled it.
Buhari’s action cost Lagosians over $78 million then,” Fayose said.
Speaking further, the governor said; “In Yorubaland, we were
enjoying free education and free health before Buhari came. Then,
all that was needed to go to primary and secondary schools was
school uniform. Drugs were free.
”Apart from free education and free health, the Southwest
witnessed rapid development. Lagos State University, Ogun State
University (now Olabisi Onabanjo University), Ondo State University
(now Ekiti State University), Ondo State Polytechnic (now Rufus
Giwa Polytechnic), and several other institutions were established.
”As at 1979, Lagos State had no secretariat. Jakande’s government
built the Alausa Secretariat within four years. Ajasin’s government
built Alagbaka Secretariat in Akure within four years. Even the Lekki-
Epe road on which they are now collecting tolls was constructed by
Jakande.
”For all that they did for us in Yorubaland, what did Buhari do to
Jakande, Ajasin, Bola Ige and Bisi Onabanjo? He jailed them and Bisi
Onabanjo came out of prison with health issues that eventually
claimed his life.
”What did Buhari do to reward Awolowo, whose party gave us free
education and free health? Awolowo’s international passport was
seized and he was prevented from travelling abroad for medical
treatment. Awolowo died two years after!
”In 1984 that Buhari introduced school fees, thousands of our
youths then dropped out of school.
”Therefore, Buhari who truncated the future of many of our people
and jailed our leaders who served our land selflessly should be
seeking forgiveness from Yoruba people, not votes.”




www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/buharis-coup-of-1983-destroyed-the-southwest-and-the-old-bendel-fayose/

some people can talk

fayose....mtchewwww

Well, ma Yoruba brothers always have short term memory. Being used and dumped from the beginning with akintola, awolowo, abiola, Adekunle Etc. Even after sanusi dealt with them with massive insults as a people, they still rallied behind him. They always focus their negative energy on the igbos who have done nothing to them, but helped them grow as a people. But God dey sha

Ow i wish buhari will win... So that fayose can hang his head in shame.



Shameless talkative

Politics aside,the highlighted are true.

liberty300:
Well, ma Yoruba brothers always have short term memory. Being used and dumped from the beginning with akintola, awolowo, abiola, Adekunle Etc. Even after sanusi dealt with them with massive insults as a people, they still rallied behind him. They always focus their negative energy on the igbos who have done nothing to them, but helped them grow as a people. But God dey sha

well said

So true!

Now GEJ's media handlers should take this to all radio stations in the southwest, especially on the Yoruba programmes. My people need to be reminded of the atrocities Buhari committed against the Yoruba nation.

Lalasticlala Obinoscopy, ishilove,, Obinoscopy

Redemption beckons.